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New Travels in the United States of America

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2l6 NEW TRAVELS IN THE
fervations for four years, or the temperature, is nine degrees and fix tenths; the mean height of the barometer is twenty-nine inches ten lines and one tenth, Eng]i(h meafure : the prevailing wind is north-north-weft. In the year there are fifteen days of thunder, feventy-fix days of l^in, twelve days of fnow, five days of tempeft with rain ; thefe eighty-one days of rain, with thofe of fnow, give thirty-five inches of water, French meafure. The Iky is never obfcured three days together. The country is very healthy, and extremely vegetative. Wheat harveft is from the 8th to the 12th of July. No predominant ficknefs has been remarked during thefe four years.
LETTER XVIir.
JOURNEY OF TWO FRENCHMEN TO THE OHIO.
Sept. 10, 1788.
I HAVE had the good fortune to meet here a Frenchman, vi^ho is travelling in this country, not in purfuit of wealth, but to gain information. It is Mr. Saugrain, from Paris i }\e is an ardent naturalift; fpme circumftanGes i ' " firft

2l6 NEW TRAVELS IN THE
fervations for four years, or the temperature, is nine degrees and fix tenths; the mean height of the barometer is twenty-nine inches ten lines and one tenth, Eng]i(h meafure : the prevailing wind is north-north-weft. In the year there are fifteen days of thunder, feventy-fix days of l^in, twelve days of fnow, five days of tempeft with rain ; thefe eighty-one days of rain, with thofe of fnow, give thirty-five inches of water, French meafure. The Iky is never obfcured three days together. The country is very healthy, and extremely vegetative. Wheat harveft is from the 8th to the 12th of July. No predominant ficknefs has been remarked during thefe four years.
LETTER XVIir.
JOURNEY OF TWO FRENCHMEN TO THE OHIO.
Sept. 10, 1788.
I HAVE had the good fortune to meet here a Frenchman, vi^ho is travelling in this country, not in purfuit of wealth, but to gain information. It is Mr. Saugrain, from Paris i }\e is an ardent naturalift; fpme circumftanGes i ' " firft